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00:03It's a boy, perfect.
00:06George now has an heir, and my position is secure.
00:13Bella, kill her and clean this mess up.
00:17Miss Eleanor, you promised freedom once the child was born.
00:21Freedom? Look at you, covered in blood, no better than a kennel bitch.
00:26Do you deserve freedom?
00:31Mother, save me!
00:35I'm not your mother, never was.
00:39Nineteen years ago, I swapped my daughter with the Countess.
00:42My daughter became Lady Eleanor.
00:44And the Countess's daughter, you, became a maid.
00:49Now you even have to bear a child for my daughter.
00:52No, impossible!
00:57What's the racket?
00:58No, George!
01:00They're trying to kill me!
01:02Save me!
01:03For the child I brought for you!
01:05Annoying.
01:07Silence her forever.
01:25Am I dead?
01:27Where am I?
01:28To ensure Lady Eleanor's health and her relationship with Vichant George remain unaffected by pregnancy, the most suitable among you
01:36will be chosen to bear their heir.
01:38This is three years ago. The day I was chosen as a surrogate maid.
01:48Too skinny. Next.
01:56My lady, Miss, Catherine is the most suitable. She's beautiful, well mannered and will fulfill the task perfectly.
02:05Good. Sign the contract and send her off.
02:07Countess, my real mother, I'm your true daughter, but if I speak now they'll call me mad.
02:12Wait. I'll return with proof and stand before you with dignity.
02:15Remember, Catherine, your only worth is to bear an heir for me at Hockmore. Complete the task faithfully and I'll
02:22grant you freedom.
02:23I understand, Miss Eleanor. I'll bear the heir for you and Lord George as promised.
02:30This life, I won't be deceived again. I'll marry your father-in-law, Duke William, the most powerful man in
02:35Hockmore.
02:36Once I'm the lady, I'll throw you all into that sewer myself.
02:46Henry, settle the horses. Report to the study in an hour.
02:49Yes, Your Grace. Welcome home.
02:54Duke William, the man I'm meant to marry. With his power, I'll crush every enemy who harmed me.
03:01This is the path I must walk in my new life.
03:07This is the strongest Aphrodite. Tonight, I'll make this powerful Duke remember me.
03:18Who are you? Why are you here so late?
03:20Forgive me, Your Grace. I'm Catherine, the new maid serving Lady Eleanor. I was sent to fetch water. The castle's
03:26so vast I got lost. It wasn't intentional.
03:29Eleanor's maid. From Windsor. Do you know the penalty for trespassing here at night?
03:34I know. Whitting. Or the dungeons. Please, Your Grace, it was truly an accident.
03:38An accident? Or a carefully planned move?
03:41I was lost. And now, you've found me.
03:58I was lost.
04:00I was lost.
04:05I was lost.
04:08I was lost.
04:12Today's the day I'm supposed to share the bed with the villain.
04:16I need Duke William to see his own son lying beside the woman he desires.
04:27Catherine!
04:42Why are you coming from that direction?
04:43Miss, I got lost. The castle's like a maze at night. I took a wrong turn.
04:49Lost? To the Duke's study door? Your hair's disheveled, your lips are swollen.
04:54Does that look like getting lost? Who do you think you're fooling?
04:58Remember why you were sent here.
05:04I swear I didn't mean to. The Duke found me. He was furious, questioned me, then let me go. I
05:08know my purpose.
05:10I'm here to help you and Lord George have a child.
05:13How could I dare to think otherwise?
05:16Your purpose. Exactly. Time to fulfill the agreement.
05:21Now let's go. To the Viscount's room. Right now.
05:28George, she's here.
05:33Ah, the little beauty.
05:37Don't waste time. Get it done today.
05:41No, Lord George.
05:43Silence!
05:44You do well to obey.
05:46Help!
05:48Help!
06:0210 years. I've never felt such a stirring for any woman.
06:06But last night, why did a mere maid shake me so?
06:09I need to uncover the truth about her.
06:13Your Grace.
06:15There was a maid last night, Catherine, serving Lady Eleanor.
06:20Find her, bring her to me at once.
06:22My Lord, that girl, she's a contractual asset delivered by Countess Margaret and Lady Eleanor.
06:28Her sole purpose is to bear an heir for Lord George.
06:30And now, she's in Lord George's chambers.
06:35Today is the day to fulfill the contract.
06:48Finally quiet.
06:51Let's continue.
06:57Eleanor chose you to bear my child.
06:59I'm sure you must be some special skill.
07:03Let's see if you're worthy.
07:06Hurry up, George.
07:07I don't plan to waste the whole day here.
07:10Then get out!
07:11Stop hovering!
07:13Why?
07:14I need to watch.
07:16Make sure she fulfills her duty.
07:19Damn.
07:20My stomach's kidding me.
07:21Go to my study.
07:22Left you will bring the medicine.
07:24Now.
07:25Now?
07:27Right now.
07:28Unless you want to be a widow.
07:34No.
07:35Finally quiet.
07:37Let's continue.
07:45What is this?
07:50Father!
07:51What brings you here?
07:53I just...
07:54Get out!
08:02Look at me.
08:07Did you leave this last night?
08:09I...
08:09I...
08:10I...
08:11I was scared after last night.
08:12I didn't know what to do.
08:13I...
08:13I thought maybe you'd remember.
08:15But then Lady Eleanor found me.
08:17Brought me here.
08:19Told me to fulfill the agreement.
08:21I refused.
08:22Begged her.
08:23But...
08:23You're never to enter this room again.
08:25Or be near George.
08:26Understood?
08:27I understand.
08:28But I'm bound by contract to Lady Eleanor.
08:31I'll handle Eleanor's contract.
08:32From now on, you answer to me.
08:34Henry!
08:39Take her to the West Wing guest suite.
08:40Prepare clothes, necessities and reliable staff.
08:43Go clean yourself up.
08:45Yes, Your Grace.
08:51My lady, the Duke sent me to look after you.
08:54Thank you for saving me.
08:55I'd have been beaten to death by the Viscount and his wife otherwise.
09:00Don't mention it, Rebecca.
09:02But I need your help with something.
09:04Anything you ask, my lady.
09:08Slip this potion into Lord George's wine.
09:11Then tell Eleanor we're meeting in the East Wing's unused blue salon.
09:16We'll make those who wronged us pay.
09:20Consider it done, my lady.
09:30Miss, I swear I saw it.
09:31Lord George went in.
09:33And not long after, Catherine slipped in too.
09:35The door's shut and there's indecent noises coming from inside.
09:37How dare they betray me, slut.
09:53I wasn't lying, Mother.
09:55The Vinnit told me you've been obsessed with you.
09:57I knew my charm hadn't faded.
09:59If I could capture the Viscount and not rely on Eleanor,
10:02I would be able to fully enjoy my wealth and honour.
10:05Wait here for him.
10:06I'll leave you two alone.
10:08I'm fine.
10:15You came.
10:17My beauty.
10:18I knew you couldn't resist.
10:22No more games, sweetheart.
10:24You're mine.
10:41You old hag.
10:43How did you end up in my bed?
10:46I thought I was with Catherine.
10:48You thought she was Catherine?
10:51And you, Bella?
10:54Did you think you were someone else too?
10:57Or did you just seize the chance
10:59and not even spare your daughter's husband?
11:05Trap.
11:06This is a trap.
11:08Catherine did this.
11:08It must be her.
11:12I heard the noise.
11:14What happened?
11:15The perfect timing.
11:17Did you say that the Viscount asked me to wait for him here?
11:20Bella!
11:22You dare steal my husband?
11:24No.
11:25I mean, Catherine drugged me and brought me here.
11:29Me?
11:30Impossible.
11:31I've been in my room all afternoon.
11:33The maids can vouch.
11:34Enough!
11:35You disgust me, old witch.
11:38Guards!
11:39Kill her!
11:40Eleanor, save me.
11:41If I die, you won't fare well either.
11:43I'm your mother.
11:45If I could, please calm down.
11:48Perhaps, perhaps Lady Bella was merely momentarily misguided.
11:51She's humiliated you, yes, but she's served me for years.
11:54Execution's too harsh.
11:56Maybe confine...
11:57Harsh?
11:57She deserves death.
11:59Gouge her eyes, cut out her tongue first, then the dungeon.
12:02For your sake, I'll spare the execution.
12:04Do as you say.
12:06Thomas!
12:07Oh, no!
12:10No!
12:11Let me go!
12:16No!
12:17It wasn't me!
12:20It's Catherine, that devil.
12:22She orchestrated hell nor George to tell Lady Eleanor.
12:25You!
12:26You violent, treacherous demon.
12:29Silence!
12:30Is this how you treat your own mother?
12:33Are you my mother?
12:34You're just a pathetic, greedy old woman who forgot her place.
12:37A governess who tried to climb into Hanagatard's bed.
12:41You know the truth about your birth.
12:43I confess.
12:44I'll tell all.
12:45You're the true daughter of the Count.
12:47Stare me!
12:47Last life, you stole my life, my name, my mother.
12:50Gave me 19 years of slavery and a death in a sewer.
12:54Now pay with your eyes and tongue.
12:56No!
12:57No!
13:05The dungeon business.
13:07Is it done?
13:08Yes, Your Grace.
13:10As Lord George ordered.
13:11I don't care about George's orders.
13:13I asked about your business.
13:15Is it finished?
13:16He knows.
13:17How much does he expect?
13:18You play the part well, like a frightened lost lamb.
13:22Lambs don't leave tokens on a Duke's bed
13:24or walk from a bloody dungeon with an aura of vengeance.
13:27Your Grace, I don't understand your meaning.
13:29I only...
13:30From the moment I almost saw you, I suspected.
13:32You're far more complex than you pretend.
13:35Who are you, really?
13:36What do you want?
13:42From the first time you got lost, and ended up in my bed, to now, kneeling here, you've
13:50been plotting your way closer to me, step by step.
13:53So tell me, what do you really want?
13:57I want my stolen life back, Your Grace.
13:59I am the Countess's true-born daughter.
14:03Proof?
14:04On my left shoulder blade, there's a maple-leaf-shaped birthmark.
14:13What does a birthmark prove?
14:16There are records in the old medical logs of the Earl's household.
14:19Document, find the evidence, and it will prove everything.
14:23So you came to me?
14:25To use my sword for your revenge?
14:27Not just revenge.
14:29I need protection, Your Grace.
14:31I need a position high enough to stand against them.
14:34Just please.
14:37You're clever, Catherine.
14:39You know exactly how to manipulate a man's most primal instincts.
14:43I had no other choice.
14:46With such sexy lips, such a hot body, and so many secrets in your mind, how could I miss
14:51them so easily?
14:53Starting tomorrow, you move out of the maid's quarters.
14:55You'll take the position of my clerical assistant and reside in the chamber next to my study.
14:59You doing, miss?
14:59Keeping you under my watchful eye.
15:01Every move you make, every person you meet, I'll know about it.
15:04Surveillance, but also protection.
15:09Yes, Your Grace.
15:12Catherine!
15:16Remember everything you've told me tonight.
15:18If even one word is a lie, you know the price of deceiving me.
15:23A size beneath the moonlight, like a pearl sinking into a deep pool.
15:29Pretty, but lacks a certain novelty.
15:39Novelty?
15:41Speaking of which, we've recently welcomed a novel figure at Hawkmoor.
15:46Look at this, Miss Catherine.
15:49Just days ago, she was my dotic maid, specifically tasked with bearing my husband's heir.
15:54Now, she's somehow transformed into a document assistant in the Duke's study.
15:59Even more numerically, she managed to get lost and end up in your Grace's bed.
16:03Should we perhaps address her as...
16:05...Hawkmoor's whore?
16:08Miss Eleanor, by slandering me so, aren't you afraid I'll tell everyone?
16:12...that your mother, Bella, is the one who truly climbed into your husband's bed.
16:19You fish!
16:20I saw it with my own eyes in the blue salon, and she was so loud when having sex with
16:25your husband.
16:27You lowly whore!
16:37Miss, though I may be of humble birth, I am also the Duke's personally appointed clerk assistant.
16:43I only wish to do my job well.
16:46Why must you treat me this way?
16:47You bitch!
16:48Don't play the innocent with me!
16:50You can fool the Duke, but not me!
16:53Watch me beat you to death!
16:55Stop!
17:05Your Grace, you've come just in time.
17:07I'm just lecturing this one, who doesn't know the rules.
17:09I didn't ask you.
17:16Does it hurt?
17:20Your Grace, she started it, she provoked me first.
17:28What I saw was her not crossing any boundaries, while you struck her.
17:34By Hockmore law, anyone who strikes another without cause receives twenty lashes and is banished from the castle.
17:42Your Grace...
17:43I have respect for your family name, and because you are my daughter-in-law, I'll spare you this time.
17:47I hope this is the last time.
17:52The injury on your face needs ice.
17:55Come with me.
18:09Come here, Jenny.
18:11Put this into the rose soap Catherine uses every day.
18:17I want her to weaken slowly, silently.
18:20Her skin to rot.
18:21Her hair to fall out.
18:23Miss, it's too dangerous.
18:25What if we're caught?
18:26Do it right away.
18:28Otherwise, you'll be sold to the brothel at the docks tomorrow.
18:31I promise, the men there will make you miss every day of this.
18:38Get it done by tonight.
18:39Get out.
18:43This rose soap smells wrong.
18:46Beneath the sweet rose scent lies a pungent metallic odour.
18:49Arsenic mixture.
18:51Eleanor, your clumsy trick from a past life.
18:53Do you really think it'll work again this time?
18:56You'll never imagine that this sneaky move of yours will backfire on you,
18:59but for me, it's the perfect opportunity to gain the Duke's sympathy and care.
19:04Rebecca, starting from tomorrow, tell everyone that I'm sick.
19:08Headache, fatigue, loss of appetite.
19:10But you're not...
19:11Just do as I say.
19:15Also, there's something wrong with this soap.
19:17Someone mixed it with chronic poison trying to disfigure me.
19:21Swap it tonight with the one an Eleanor usually uses in her bathroom.
19:25Swap it?
19:27You mean use her own poison against her...
19:29Yes, the gift she gave.
19:31Of course should be tasted by her herself.
19:33Be careful, don't be noticed.
19:36I understand, my lady.
19:38Leave it to me.
19:51Henry said you're sick.
19:57Just a little tired, your grace.
19:59Nothing to worry about.
20:05You look very bad.
20:07How's a physician seen you?
20:08No need.
20:09I'm just a little cold.
20:11Your hands are as cold as ice.
20:15Could you stay with me for a while?
20:19Just for a little while.
20:23That's it.
20:25Duke's affection to me is growing bit by bit.
20:28The goal is getting closer.
20:30This act must be played to the end.
20:38Why do I lose so much hair?
20:40It's so itchy.
20:45No!
20:46No!
20:47My face!
20:48My hair!
20:51This smell.
20:53This damn smell.
20:54It was supposed to be in Catherine's room.
20:57How much?
20:57Charles, did it end up here?
21:01Catherine.
21:02You vicious bitch.
21:04How dare you?
21:04How dare you do this to me?
21:06I swear.
21:07I will make you pay a hundredfold, a thousandfold price.
21:15Your Grace!
21:17Take a look!
21:19These rashes all over my hands.
21:22And my face!
21:26It's all that wicked Catherine's doing.
21:28She poisoned the soap, trying to disfigure me, to kill me!
21:32Is there such a thing?
21:34Eleanor, within Hockmore Castle,
21:37accusations against anything or anyone require evidence.
21:40Go back to your room first.
21:42I will have Henry investigate this thoroughly.
21:44I know, Your Grace.
21:46I swear, it's her.
21:48You must avenge me.
21:49I said I will handle it.
21:53All right, Your Grace.
21:55I'm waiting for your investigation results.
22:03Eleanor's maid, Jenny, has confessed everything.
22:07She admitted that it was Mrs. Eleanor herself
22:09who ordered her to add the poison to the soap,
22:12targeting Miss Catherine.
22:13But somehow that poison soap ended up
22:16being used by Mrs. Eleanor herself.
22:21Evidence?
22:22Jenny handed over the remaining powder of the poison.
22:26This is it.
22:28We found the apothecary who sold it.
22:30He confirmed that the purchaser
22:31was Mrs. Eleanor's personal maid
22:34and described her appearance
22:35and the amount of gold coins she paid
22:38which were consistent with the facts.
22:40Plot harm, then file false accusations to cover it up.
22:45Pure evil and unforgivable.
22:47She must be severely punished.
22:49Your Grace.
22:54Mrs. Eleanor has already been punished.
22:57She harmed herself with her own poison.
23:00Perhaps no additional punishment is needed.
23:02Just restricting Mrs. Eleanor's movements is enough.
23:05Let us stay in her room and reflect on her misdeeds.
23:09Eleanor Windsor from today is confined to her room
23:11not to leave without my express permission.
23:14Remove most of her servants,
23:15leaving only Kutu to serve allowances,
23:16providing on only the basic living the city.
23:20Father.
23:22I heard you mean to punish Eleanor.
23:24She is my wife.
23:26You cannot do this to her.
23:28Precisely because she's your wife
23:30that I must punish her.
23:31As the young mistress of Hotmore Castle
23:34instead of setting an example
23:35plotted to harm others.
23:36It's unforgivable.
23:38Father.
23:39She might just be confused for a moment.
23:42This is an order, George.
23:51Is this what you want?
23:53What?
23:54This play
23:55was performed extremely wonderful.
23:59Right and wrong, good and evil, I believe.
24:02You has own judgment.
24:04You still chose to help me, didn't you?
24:07I wonder how many secrets are still hidden in you.
24:21Your grace, what are you going to do?
24:26Why did you plead for her?
24:28You know she deserved punishment.
24:30You know she tried to kill you.
24:32I know.
24:33But why?
24:37Because I didn't want this to be hard for you.
24:41Hard for me?
24:44She's your daughter-in-law.
24:46George is your son.
24:47If you punished her severely,
24:49there would be a rift between father and son.
24:55You were thinking of me.
24:58Can I?
25:04Catherine,
25:06do you know what I hate the most?
25:07Being played, especially,
25:10by woman I can't see through.
25:15Every step you take
25:16is perfectly timed.
25:19Every word you speak
25:20falls at exactly the right moment.
25:24You made me investigate your past.
25:26You showed me your scars.
25:27You made me
25:29I'm able to resist protecting you.
25:32What if I told you
25:35I'm not playing you?
25:38Then tell me
25:39what part of you is real?
25:43That I didn't want this to be hard for you.
25:46That part
25:48is real.
25:50Then prove it.
25:57You still don't trust me.
25:59You're too perfect, Catherine.
26:01Every appearance is flawlessly timed.
26:03Every word strikes a chord in my heart.
26:05The perfect victim.
26:06The perfect avenger.
26:07The perfect
26:09temptress.
26:11Then why do you still?
26:12I want you,
26:14but I won't let myself
26:14fall in love with you.
26:17What if I told you
26:20this moment
26:21I'm giving myself to you
26:22willingly?
26:23Would you believe it?
26:32Damn Catherine!
26:33She's actually hooked up with Duke.
26:35It won't be long
26:36before she's riding on our heads.
26:38My father wouldn't be serious
26:39about a servant.
26:40I need to teach her a lesson
26:41to make her know her place.
26:49Catherine,
26:49perhaps you'd favour us
26:50with a tune on the harsh chord.
26:52She's been a maid
26:53all her life.
26:54How would she know
26:55how to play?
26:58As a maid,
26:59if she fails to meet
27:00her master's demands,
27:01orking to the rules,
27:02she will be slapped in public
27:03and then expelled
27:04from the house.
27:04You can't possibly play.
27:08If you want to listen,
27:09I'll play a piece
27:10as you wish.
27:10Cut the axe!
27:13How could a lowborn trash
27:14like you possibly
27:15play the harpsichord?
27:30She's so talented.
27:36Oh my goodness,
27:38this skill is more exquisite
27:40than that of a court musician.
27:42She's a maid.
27:43What?
27:45Mother,
27:46look at Catherine.
27:48As a maid,
27:49she's not content
27:49with her duties,
27:50but shows off at the ball.
27:52She's humiliating me.
27:54Even the most refined skill
27:55cannot change
27:56a lowborn nature.
27:58Mother,
27:59I'm your biological daughter.
28:01You stand with the one
28:02who harmed me
28:02and speak of my nature.
28:04Lowborn.
28:04Who said she's a maid?
28:07Catherine is my personally
28:08appointed clerk
28:09and an honoured guest
28:10of Hockmore Castle.
28:11Anyone who calls her a maid
28:13again is insulting
28:14this ducal house.
28:16Even if that someone
28:18is my own son and daughter.
28:22just how many more surprises
28:23are hidden inside you.
28:29Eleanor,
28:30your mother is unwell.
28:32It's time you escorted her back.
28:37Mother,
28:38you don't recognise me,
28:39but one day
28:40I'll make you see the truth.
28:42See who is truly lowborn.
28:43she's not löpherent.
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